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Gifts of the Sun

by: Del Monte Food Products

Publication date: ca. 1946

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: Agriculture: Food industry: Fruit: Dried, Occupations: Agriculture, California: Agriculture

Beautiful Kodachrome film showing how California dried fruit is grown, harvested, processed, sorted, weighed, and packed. With alluring imagery of apricots, prunes, peaches, and raisins. Story: Gene Walker. Photography: Dave Butler. Recording: Bill Palmer. Narrator: Dr. Sunshine.

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Apricots, prunes, peaches and grapes shown on the branch/vine. Men on ladders harvesting fruit. Apricots being pitted and left to dry in the sun. Truck loaded with dried fruit entering packing house. Dried fruit being processed. Shots of hands sorting fruit on conveyor belt. Good shot of women measuring exact weight of prunes. Several shots of packaging by "whirling" machines.

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